On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:47:44 -0600, Scott Ribe wrote: > Thought you should be aware that for a new OS X (10.5.8 Intel) user, getting > darcs going could be difficult:
Thanks for the report, Scott. I've CC'ed the users who provided the packages. I think most Mac users install darcs via MacPorts (which I understand leads to lots of waiting as they compile GHC) > - Downloaded the pre-built binary darcs-2.3.1-i386-darwin. It doesn't run, > crashes with a dyld error: unknown required load command 0x80000022. Net > searches turn up info that 22 was a load command added in 10.5.6, people > running 10.5.5 had this error with command-line utilities, updated to > 10.5.6, and the error went away. Unfortunately I am running 10.5.8. > > - Went ahead and ran otool on darcs, verified that it only links to dylibs > that are standard on OS X, and that they're all where expected on my system. This should be of interest to Scott and Fivesquare > - Went down a dead-end by misreading the build-it-yourself instructions at > <http://www.darcs.net/manual/node8.html>. Looked at Setup, figured out that > it's not a shell script, but rather Haskell. Anything we can do to improve this? > - Installed the pre-packaged GHC-10.4. > > - Tried "ghci Setup.lhs configure" and so on, ran into issues with missing > packages. Right, this is why we really encourage people to use cabal-install > - Tried cabal-install, cabal update, cabal install darcs. Got a working > darcs now. Great. One thing I do is to just download the Haskell Platform via http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/ This comes with GHC, cabal-install and some libraries, so cabal install darcs just works. For future reference, Snow Leopard users seem have a bit more trouble, on the other hand, but making it work seem quite doable. At least, for MacPorts users, it involves building all your ports with +universal. But hopefully, all this will be much easier by the time you upgrade. -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9
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